JUMBLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jumbled mean? 

• JUMBLED (adjective)
  The adjective JUMBLED has 1 sense:

1. in utter disorder

  Familiarity information: JUMBLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUMBLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In utter disorder

Synonyms:

disorderly; higgledy-piggledy; hugger-mugger; jumbled; topsy-turvy

Context example:

a disorderly pile of clothes

Similar:

untidy (not neat and tidy)

 Context examples 

Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarreling about its relative situation.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If I've got some of his wise ideas jumbled up with my romance, so much the better for me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Their composition, whether of atoms, molecules, grains or cells, do not lie in a neat, orderly pattern, but, instead, are all jumbled up.

(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)

Mrs. Jennings's prophecies, though rather jumbled together, were chiefly fulfilled; for she was able to visit Edward and his wife in their Parsonage by Michaelmas, and she found in Elinor and her husband, as she really believed, one of the happiest couples in the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And having jumbled her father and the umbrella well together in her reply, Jo slipped out of the room to give Meg a chance to make her speech and air her dignity.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Oh, gracious! What shall I say?" cried Sallie, as Fred ended his rigmarole, in which he had jumbled together pell-mell nautical phrases and facts out of one of his favorite books.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)